Despite strong cloud growth, Amazon shares fall on revenue shortfall and lower guidance
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Despite higher-than-expected cloud computing revenue growth, Amazon.com Inc. saw its shares fall about 7% in after-hours trading on a second-quarter revenue shortfall and lower-than-expected guidance for the current quarter.
For much of the past year, the pandemic helped Amazon.com Inc. reach new heights as more people shopped online and more businesses flocked to the cloud, and not even the easing of pandemic restrictions seemed to slow it down.
But that pandemic boost appears to be over now, even as the Delta variant threatens to send more people into relative isolation once again. The retail and cloud giant said today that its second-quarter profit jumped 50% from a year ago, to $7.8 billion, or $15.12 a share. Revenue rose 27%, to $113.1 billion, though without the benefit of positive currency exchange rates, growth was 24%.
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Amazon.com Inc plans to award incoming Chief Executive Andy Jassy more than $200 million in extra stock, which will pay out over 10 years, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday.
Amazon will record the grant of 61,000 shares on July 5, the filing said. That s the date Jassy succeeds Jeff Bezos in the online retailer s first CEO transition since its founding in 1994. As of Friday s close, those shares are worth about $214 million. The award s exact value will depend on how the shares are trading when they pay out in future years, encouraging Jassy to grow a company that s worth $1.77 trillion today. Though Amazon did not disclose the vesting schedule, its previous stock grants have not vested right away.
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